Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-10
State AFFAIRS.
Senator Jarvis Introduces a Bill to
Make Tarrant County Sepa-
rate judicial District.
Represantaiive NewiOu's Position Re
gardi8g IN Extension o: Time or
Taxes in Tarrant COIn'y,
HeE.ted Discussions in the Senate over the
BIii to Regulate the Holding of Local
Option Elections.
= SEPARATE JUDICIAL DISTRICT.

SlieCl.l 70 lDe ClLelle-
AUSTIN, Ten, March 9-Sen.tor jar
Wis has introduced bill 20 create Tsrrant
county a separate judicial district. This
bill provides for the holding CT court
three timesa year.
PASSED TO THIRD READING.
The Senate had under consideration at
It's afternoon session bill to require the
law issues in civil cases to be argued and
decided before the case goes to the jury
The main features in this bill SEEKS to
the court before the argument on the
facts, Sc that the judge can give or re-
fuse them and decide all points in law be-
fore the case is a gued before the jury on
the facts. After considerable discussion
the bill passed to its third reading
TO SUE THE STATE.
House judiciary committee No. | have
agreed to report favorably j bill to allow
a. Wyschetsky 10 sue the state of Texas
upon an account for services rendered
the state for surveying and running con-
Meeting lines in the counties of Webb,
Zsvala, Dimmit, Maverick, LaSalle and
Kinney.
WILL REPORT FAVORABLY.
House committee on public lands and
LAID office, will report favOrably 3 DILL to
authorize the appointment Of surveyor
to survey, mark the corners and CLASSIFY
the public school lands Of the state so
that they can either be leased or sold &C
cording to certified Held notes.
HOUSE FINANCE COMMITTEE.
The House finance committee were con-
sideFirg claims of different officers for
ulHaid fees. Among those that Will be
REPORTED favOrably is one for the Sheriff
IT Brszaria county for SO for attached
I&itaess in the Hobby land fraud cases,
fand Que for the fees of Clerk, Attorney
and Sheriff for $1,000 Tor fees IN cases
brought by the state in the District court
of Travis county.
MIR. MENTIONS REASONS.
Representative Newton Of T&rrant
county says he was opposed to placing
Tarrant county in the list of counties TO
which an extension OF time WAS given to
pay taxes until he received petition
signed by 1873 names asking it to be
done.
CHARTERED.
A charter was filed in the Secretary OF
States Office to-day by the East Texas
Transportation Company Of Atlanta, Cass
county, capital stock SlOO,O 900. incor-
porators: Ed. F. Sheets, w. G. Wsdley,
w. Ii. Rutland and w. A. Scott.
MOTION To RECONSIDER.
A motion to reconsider the vote by
which the occupation tax bill was lost
Yesterday was the occasion of another
the reconsideration advanced the argu-
ment that the bill that was proposed to
be revived by the motion was one of dis
elimination, unjust in principle and of
questionable ConstitutiOnality, by reasons
Of its inequality, that it prescribed grades
in the same occupations by which some
we're taxed and others went free. The
uDjustness was further illustrated by the
claims that some occupations were taxed
amounts tina. virtually prohibited the
state from collecting any revenue from
those branches Of business, citing
ten pm alleys, illustrated papers
and some other 0CCupali1nS that
yielded one half of the revenue
that they would yield under q Just and
equitable taxation. Those supporting the
motion to reconsider argued that if we
were to be subj CT to the old occupation
tax law there were other occupations that
should be added to tie lis TO increase the
revenue to support the state government;
tbst if certain Injurious, immoral and
obnoxious occupations were taxed on of
existence it would be blessing, and the
government could well aft Jrd to get
along without them.
Motion to reconsider prevailed, and
after several amendments were lost the
bill passed to engrossmeDt.
HOW SHALL THE ELECTION BE ORDERED?
The Till to regulate the holding of the
Local option election came up for eDgross-
ment in the Senate this morning. The
order OF consideration of the bill being
by sections s question was raised as to
the ACCESSIBILITY Of allowing the con-
missiOners' courts to order the elections
within their own discretion when they
believed it necessary, and compelled
them to order it when petitiOned by one
third of the voters. The discussion on
this section was both lengthy and inter-
esting. Those opposed claimed that to
leave 1t optioDary with the commits
siOners' courts to order the election was
allowing too much latitude 10 their
authority in the premises, giving them
the power, if they desired to use II, to
force an election without the consent of
the people. Notwithstanding the opposi-
ton this section was adopted.
By far the most elaborate discussion
on the bill grew out of an attempt to
amend the section permitting whisky to
be sold upon the certificate OF q physi-
clan. The position was taken that in all
local option towns there were unprinci-
pied men possessing DOCTORS diploma,
who let their services to liquor dealers
for part OF the profits and what liquor
they could drink. This. it was claimed,
was cured by the section making it obli-
gatory upon all doctors to purchase books
from the state at So each, containing
blank certificates and stubs, the proceeds
to go to the state reformatory fund,
these books to be called "Alco-
hol Prescription BooKs," each stub
to have an affidavit attached under seal
of the Comptroller OF the state, every
book to contain fifty certificates and
stubbs which are to be presented to each
regular term of the commissioners cnurt